Kira Lum (Lumpyplume)

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Kira is Currently Reading

Kira Lum (Lumpyplume) is currently reading

The Iliad

by Robert Fagles

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Jan 15, 2026 08:36AM

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Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace

by Nikil Saval

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Kira Lum (Lumpyplume) said: " An architectural design and social/human history of the rise of the office.

I wanted its raison d’être to be more than a Phd thesis or Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, and I felt it rose above that, though there is repetition if you have read a lot about eco ...more "

Jan 26, 2026 11:19AM · see review

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Known and Strange Things: Essays

by Teju Cole

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Kira’s Quotes

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

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“When midnight hushed the Earth, and lonely on the rooftops the night owls seemed to lament in melancholy notes, prolonged to a doleful cry, and then besides the riddling words of seers in ancient days, foreboding sayings made her thrill with fear.”
― Virgil (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

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“Pride's a joke that will make the stranger inside you laugh sooner or later.”
― Stephen King, Los ojos del dragón

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“Girl don’t you know yet that you don’t never give up on love? Don’t you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies?”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

tags: faith, love, soulmate

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“[I]f the wave practices meditation and realizes she is water, she can collapse and tumble with joy. She may die as a wave, but she will always be alive as water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

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